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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1830 GMT, April 22

Xinhua, April 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

China's proposal to boost cooperation between Asia and Africa will help both continents to deepen understanding of each other, a senior Iranian official said here Wednesday.

China has good investment in Africa, and many other Asian countries also pay attention to Africa. "This is a very good cooperation between the two continents," Ebrahim Rahimpour, deputy minister for Asia, Oceania and CIS of the Iranian foreign ministry, told Xinhua on the sidelines of an Asian-African Summit. ( Indonesia-China-Proposal)

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KATHMANDU -- Death toll in a bus accident in Dhading district of Central Nepal has climbed to 17, police said on Wednesday.

"Five female and seven male died on the spot while five other Indian nationals breathed their last in course of treatment in Kathmandu-based hospitals," Deputy Superintendent of Police, Prakash Malla, told Xinhua. (Nepal-Bus Crash-Toll)

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TOKYO -- A small drone bearing a trace of radiation has been found on the roof of the Japanese Prime Minister's office on Wednesday, local media reported.

According to the police, the drone is about 50 centimeters in diameter, carrying four propellers and a small camera as well as a 10-cm brown bottle of liquid with a sticker showing a radioactivity symbol and the word"radioactive,"said Japan's Kyodo News Agency. (Japan-PM Office-Drone)

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YANGON -- A total of eighteen Myanmar armymen have been killed and three others injured as a military vehicle crashed in Mongpyin township, northeastern Shan state, local media Voice quoted local traffic police as reporting Wednesday.

With 21 armymen on board, the military vehicle, owned by the Triangle Area Military Command, fell into a 90 meter-deep ravine on Tuesday at 2:20 p.m. (local time) when it was bound for Taunggyi from Kengtung on Kengtung-Taunggyi road, it said without giving further details on the cause of the accident. (Myanmar- Military Vehicle-Crash) Endi